The department’s Criminal Justice Information Center said Tuesday that 889 people died in crashes on streets and highways in 2011, compared with 937 in 2010.

The center says the decline in deaths came despite slight increases in crashes and injuries. It says total crashes rose 1 percent, from 282,075 to 284,049. And it says injuries rose 2 percent, 70,501 in 2010 to 71,796.

It says alcohol-involved fatalities fell 3 percent, from 283 in 2010 to 274. It also says drug-linked fatalities fell 17 percent, from 153 to 127.